Angela Meredith

Angela Meredith holds a BA in liberal studies, an MA in creative writing, and a graduate certificate in professional editing and publishing. She has a career in marketing and communications and is currently the communications and marketing director for a nonprofit in Tallahassee, Florida. Her work has been published in “Bayou”, “The Great American Poetry Show”, “Freshwater”, “Origami Condom”, and “Iron Horse Literary Review”, “The Good Life Review”, and Moonstone Arts Center’s World Poetry Day anthology.

“To Marilyn Buried Next Door” and “Your Girl”

When I first learned you were there,
that you had been there all along,
I felt that you had been watching me
and I wondered what I was doing when you arrived.

Did you, in your maternal stillness,
know that I dwelt beyond our mutual fence?